Tony Tulathimutte (born September 1, 1983) is an American fiction writer. His short story "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" received an O. Henry Award in 2008.[1] In 2016, he published his debut novel Private Citizens, which was called "the first great millennial novel" by New York.[2]
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 Tulathimutte at the 2016 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | September 1, 1983 Springfield, Massachusetts |
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Early life edit
Raised in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Tulathimutte is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and formerly worked as a writer and researcher on user experience topics.[3]
Career edit
Currently he is the lead instructor at CRIT, a creative writing workshop based in Brooklyn, NY.[4]
Works edit
Novel edit
- Private Citizens (2016)
Collection edit
- Rejection (2024)
Short fiction edit
- "Composite Body" in The Cimarron Review
- "Inheritance" in The Threepenny Review
- Brains in The Malahat Review
- "The Man Who Wasn't Male" in Wag's Revue
- "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" in The Threepenny Review
- "The Feminist" in n+1
- "Ahegao" in The Paris Review
Nonfiction edit
- Remote Research (2010), co-author with Nate Bolt
Awards edit
- Whiting Award in Fiction, 2017
- O. Henry Award, 2008
References edit
- ^ The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
- ^ Tulathimutte, Tony (2016-02-09). Private Citizens: A Novel. William Morrow Paperbacks. ISBN 9780062399106.
- ^ "Tony Tulathimutte Archive". User Experience Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
- ^ "The Instructor". CRIT. Retrieved 21 January 2022.